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Pick a time in IST — or any zone — and see it across every attendee's zone at once, daylight-saving aware. So a class or training that suits students in India also works for participants abroad.
A time-zone meeting planner converts one chosen meeting time into the local time of every attendee's region at once. You set a date and time in a reference zone — India Standard Time, which is fixed at UTC+5:30 with no daylight saving — and the tool shows the matching local time everywhere else, adjusting automatically for the daylight-saving rules in force on that date. India is several hours ahead of Europe and the Americas, so a late-morning IST class lands in the early morning for the UK and the small hours for the US, while an evening IST slot tends to suit US mornings. The planner flags whether each local time is comfortable, early or late, or unsociable, so you can pick the least-bad slot. It runs entirely in your browser and stores nothing.
Your reference time
Across attendees' zones
Conversions use your browser's standard time-zone data, including daylight-saving rules for the date you pick. India (IST) does not observe daylight saving. Everything runs in your browser — nothing you enter is stored. Confirm critical times against an official clock before scheduling.
Approximate local time for common IST meeting slots. Offsets shift by an hour in zones that observe daylight saving, so use the live planner above for an exact date. India stays at UTC+5:30 year-round.
| IST | London | New York | Dubai | Singapore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | ~04:30 | prev ~23:30 | ~07:30 | ~11:30 |
| 11:00 | ~06:30 | ~01:30 | ~09:30 | ~13:30 |
| 15:00 | ~10:30 | ~05:30 | ~13:30 | ~17:30 |
| 18:00 | ~13:30 | ~08:30 | ~16:30 | ~20:30 |
| 20:00 | ~15:30 | ~10:30 | ~18:30 | ~22:30 |
Approximate, assuming northern-hemisphere summer offsets. London and New York shift an hour in winter; Dubai and Singapore do not observe daylight saving.
India sits in a single time zone, UTC+5:30, and never changes its clocks. That simplicity is a gift at home and a complication abroad: every other country you work with is offset from you by an amount that, for many of them, shifts twice a year. Planning a session that includes attendees overseas means holding two facts at once — where their clock sits relative to yours today, and whether that gap will move before the session runs.
Because India keeps a constant offset, a recurring class fixed at, say, 18:00 IST will not stay fixed for an attendee in London or New York. When those regions move to daylight saving in spring, the local time of your unchanged IST slot jumps by an hour; it jumps back in autumn. This is the single most common scheduling surprise for Indian organisers running international cohorts. Checking both a summer and a winter date before committing to a recurring slot avoids the half-yearly confusion.
India is nine and a half to eleven hours ahead of the continental United States, depending on the coast and the season. That gap is wide enough that no comfortable slot exists for both sides simultaneously: a working hour in India is the middle of the night in America, and vice versa. The workable compromise is usually an early-evening IST class, which reaches US mornings, accepting that it runs slightly late for India. Where even that fails, the fair move is to pick the least-bad live slot and record the session so the side for whom no time worked can catch up.
Closer zones are far more forgiving. The Gulf is only ninety minutes behind India and observes no daylight saving, so a slot that works in India usually works in Dubai. Singapore and most of Southeast Asia are slightly ahead and equally stable. Europe and the UK sit four and a half to five and a half hours behind, which means an early-evening IST class lands comfortably in the European working afternoon. For sessions confined to India plus these regions, a single sensible slot is almost always findable.
Finding the slot is only half the task. The other half is making sure every attendee sees it in their own clock, not yours, because a time written as "18:00 IST" invites mistakes from anyone who has to convert it themselves. The reliable answer is a calendar invite that carries the time-zone information with it, so each person's calendar renders it locally. That is a job for a scheduling system built on the iCalendar standard rather than a line of text in an email.
"Our weekend executive programme has working professionals dialling in from the Gulf, Singapore and a few from the UK. I used to get the time wrong for someone every single cohort. Now I set the IST slot here, see it land in everyone's clock, and pick the one that's an evening for India and an afternoon for Europe. On LiveLoop the invite goes out in each person's own zone, so the 'what time is it for me' emails have basically stopped."
From the right time to the live room
Picking a fair time is half the job. LiveLoop sends the calendar invite so each attendee sees it in their own zone — synced via the RFC 5545 iCalendar standard, with calendar-event-only access and nothing else. Participants join in the browser with no app to download, and every session can be recorded so anyone for whom no time worked can catch up. Live translation across major Indian languages keeps a cross-border class inclusive. See how calendar sync works.
Invites
in each local zone (iCalendar)
Record
for those who can't attend
Translate
across Indian languages
Browser
no download, no plugin
This page answers one question: what a chosen time is across every attendee's zone. It does not estimate the bandwidth or data a class uses — that is the bandwidth & data-usage estimator. It does not size the storage a recording library needs — see the recording storage estimator. And it does not price the time a meeting consumes — that is the meeting cost calculator. For sending invites in each attendee's own zone rather than just computing the time, see LiveLoop calendar sync.
Time zone scheduling FAQ
It uses your browser's IANA time-zone database, which knows each region's daylight-saving rules, and converts the actual date you pick — so the result reflects whether a zone is on daylight time that day. India doesn't observe DST, so IST stays fixed at UTC+5:30.
India Standard Time is UTC+5:30 all year round. India doesn't change its clocks for daylight saving, so the offset never shifts. A meeting at 11:00 IST is 05:30 UTC.
Because India is far ahead of the Americas, a daytime IST slot lands very early for the US. An 11:00 IST class is roughly 00:30 US Eastern and the previous evening on the West Coast. An evening IST class, around 18:00–20:00 IST, tends to suit US mornings better.
India is ahead of Europe by about four and a half to five and a half hours depending on the season. A late-morning IST slot lands in the early morning for the UK and Europe; an early-evening IST slot, around 17:00–19:00 IST, falls in the European working afternoon.
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using the standard date API. The time, date and zones you choose are never uploaded or stored.
As accurate as your browser's time-zone data, maintained from the global IANA database including daylight-saving rules. Reliable for most planning, but for a critical session confirm the slot against an official clock per country, since rare rule changes can lag.
There's rarely a slot that suits all three at once. An IST evening can reach European afternoons and US mornings, but will be late for India. When no time works for everyone, picking the least-bad slot and recording the session for those who can't attend live is usually the fairest approach.
You can check what a single chosen time looks like everywhere, which is the input you need for a recurring slot. Because some countries shift for daylight saving and India does not, a fixed IST time can drift by an hour for those attendees twice a year — check both a summer and a winter date.
Countries that observe daylight saving move their clocks forward in spring and back in autumn. Because India keeps a fixed offset, the gap between IST and those zones changes by an hour across the year. Picking the date correctly is what makes the tool show the right local time.
Yes. This planner computes the time; the LiveLoop platform sends the calendar invite so each attendee sees it in their own zone, syncing via the RFC 5545 iCalendar standard with calendar-event-only access. The planner itself only does the conversion.
LiveLoop invites attendees in their own zone, translates live and records every session — nothing to install.
